Re: LOGO-L> Pipelines

[Paul C Dench <Paul.Dench@bigpond.com>]

I don't have Microworlds but I guess the primitives will be close enough to
suggest a solution.

You could 'pick' randomly from a list of [ + - / *] and 'run' the result
i.e. run (se "5 :sign "2).

At 04:53 PM 8/18/98 +1000, John Lever wrote:
>Having been the 664th person to look at stagers "other side of logo math" I
>was compelled to try and design some pipeline maths activities using win95
>microworlds.
>This involves putting some numbers in text boxes, passing then through some
>hidden text boxes that process these numbers and coming out with a result.
>The aim of the task is to determine what is the process.
>No problems setting up these sorts of things with hidden text boxes
>revealed with mouse clicks on turtles.
>
>eg.  5  ( ) 2 = 7   The process is plus
>
>You can even setup feedback loops with changing results.
>
>My problem is how to setup random processes so I don't have to create too
>many pages in the projects.
>
>Like sometimes  5 ( ) 2  = 10  but other times it is 7 . The operation
>being product the first time but sum the next.
>
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